All posts tagged fallout 3

over the weekend, i became more awesome. how, you ask? because i got the platinum on assassin’s creed 2. that’s right. a big platinum bastard of a trophy. afterwards, litte_nerdxo and i watched buried, which kind of put a damper on the whole thing. sure, i got an achievement, but then had to watch ryan reynolds get buried alive. not easy.

i am pretty stoked about this trophy. i have only ever platinumed 3 times: fallout 3, the saboteur and now assassin’s creed 2. fallout 3 was somehow less of a deal, because the game was so glitchy that i felt i had to spite it. keep at it and annoy it. also, i had to play about 4 times since it glitched at point lookout.

the saboteur was just time-consuming. free play event times a billion. ok, closer to a thousand but COME ON.

this was the first trophy i really felt mattered and i feel pretty good.

damn it, i am sick of wikipedia, wikimedia and even that creepy bastard from wikileaks. make your own goddamn fortune – stop begging. although in that vein, i want money too. it’s for an equally noble cause: video games.

i have mentioned before that i suspect my ps3 is on its last legs. usually, it just freezes with fallout. or fallout: new vegas. lately though, it’s been freezing with other games too. lego harry potter, and even naughty bear. it’s been making some weird sounds as well, namely sounding like it’s going to take off and go back to the mothership. the other day, i was smugly comparing my trophies to others on my list when the unthinkable happened: it FROZE.

my only resolution this year? buy another ps3. ideally with donated funds*. what? you won’t contribute? gasp! oh sure, it’s all fun and games until an internet meme pokes jimmy wales in the eye.

oh ps3. don’t die. you have so many friends who love you. it’s not your time!!

i’ll never forget when i was playing true crime: new york city and i heard laurence fishburne’s voice in the game. i thought it was so cool. i was fresh out of school, and i thought i was the shit, playing away on my little ps2 in my tiny basement apartment. or samuel l. jackson as officer tenpenny in grand theft auto: san andreas.

fast forward a few years, and i still think it is awesome when a voice i recognize comes out of my speakers. liam neeson as the dad in fallout 3? too cool.

i am not a fan of celebrities at all, but i find that it gives the whole video game industry that extra layer of authenticity. it’s nice to be recognized as an art form if so many different kinds people can come together and collaborate on a project. mainly though, trained actors have the experience and knowledge to deliver a good voice performance. they know that their cadence, their tone, their diction will enhance a scene, and they aren’t afraid of a little hard work.

as it turns out, there are many famous actors in the video game industry. the boys and girls over at videogamer.com have put together a slide show.

collectors edition, i must say, are a mixed bag. unless you buy online, video game merch is few and far between. i am sorry, but even i am only willing to possess so many action figures. i am a little too old for mario character plushies – the boyfriends are patient people, but one can only tolerate so much.

this is why i used to love collectors editions. you always used to get a ton of shit from them. stardust entertainment was closing its scarborough toronto location about a year ago, so captainadventure and i booked it down there and bought a lot of shit. i scored the grand theft auto 4 collector edition, as well as the fallout 3 one. there’s some good shit in those two. then there was the assassin’s creed 2 one. not bad. action figure, metal tin, book, making of, yeah not bad.

i have also gotten a few others. maybe it is just me, but i am noticing the quality falling. the god of war collector’s edition… well, it wasn’t bad. plastic box, some art books, a dvd ‘making of’ thing… in retrospect, i could have left it on the shelf. the fallout: new vegas collector edition. pack of cards, and some poker chips? meh. maybe i indulge myself too often.

the other day, i got the assassin’s creed: brotherhood collector’s edition. i was so excited about it, as well you all may remember. i haven’t played it yet, but the collector’s edition? the stuff you get with it is a pile of shit.

– art book. but it’s not so much art as it is so much the same shit you can can see anywhere else
– map poster
– dvd chronicling the development process
– a free bag of yawns

the crowning jewel in this clusterfuck is a jack-in-the-box. it is such shitty quality that i am rendered almost speechless. i opened it, and met by a plastic-smelling figure. good times. i struggled with the lid for five minutes to close it. then i showed little_nerdxo. same difficulty, although we had a good giggle over it, it was another struggle to get the lid back on. then we played it again.

its fucking arm broke.

obviously, i’m not going to return it to ebgames. they’d want the whole thing back, and lugging this piece of shit across toronto is just not something i am interested in doing.

what i am interested in doing is being less blinded by my own greed next time.

man oh man. fallout: new vegas is the shit. just like the last one, i am rocking this thing on ps3. now, in my day, we didn’t do this ‘strategy guide’ bullshit. ok? that is some freeze-dried bullshit right there. we just fought it out. sometimes we polled our friends. later, we had this little thing called ‘the internet’. maybe you have heard of it? we sure as hell didn’t have any of this ‘strategy guide’ nonsense. a lot of clerks push them on you, especially when you buy the game the first day it’s out. why would i pay upwards of $30 for something i can get for free on the webz? asshats.

anyway, captainadventure loves them. i was telling her how awesome fallout: new vegas was, and her first question was about this damn guide. guess what though? she bought the game, and the guide for fallout 3. she played maybe 5 hours, then gave up after fallout 3 revealed itself to be hot glitchy mess. what did that equal? a waste of money.

i find that this is another big trend in games. big game, strategy guide. maybe you put two and two together and got four, you clever wannabe mathematicians and realized the bigger the game, the bigger the guide.

i get so many questions from new ps3 owners: what ps3 games should i get? game stores want you to buy the most possible, of course. very few big box stores will tell you that a game is a waste of your time. truth to be told, a lot are. or rather, what seems like a great idea is poorly executed. we aren’t singling you out, turning point: fall of liberty, but if you feel guilty we all understand.

now, i should say that there’s nothing wrong with having all sports titles on your shelf, or only shooters. however, in my experience, many gamers like variety. and as we know, it’s the spice of life.

what i’ve done here is given a list of games every ps3 owner should have on the shelf. most can be obtained cheaply, which is nice too. some are also exclusive to the playstation, and they’ve been marked with an asterisk.